CaseCircle1968
Pacific Ocean (1500mi.sw of U.S.mainland), Pacific Ocean
A witness at sea roughly 1,500 miles southwest of the U.S. mainland reported a bright, white, soundless circular object with no visible trail, during a thirty-second sighting in October 1968.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-15
- Where
- Pacific Ocean (1500mi.sw of U.S.mainland), Pacific Ocean
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-pacific-ocean-1500mi-sw-of-u-s-mainland-1968-fe471c
In context
- Pacific Ocean (1500mi.sw of U.S.mainland), Pacific Ocean shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Pacific Ocean in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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